Unable to handle multiple sheet drawings .. ?!

Pretty much...

It should be a TR -  7 years 12,464 views, 26 replies, no solution?  

Any file can have multiple attribute "sheets". This concept has been in ProjectWise since forever. But we have never had a way to utilize the data. Where is the logic in that?  

The logic of the request is simple – the binding of the data stays the same. Sheet models have an integer attribute that can corresponds to a specific PW Attribute sheet.

A value of 0 equals one PW Attribute sheet per file. A value of 1 – infinity equals the PW Attribute sheet attached to each sheet model. Model properties are check and title block integration updates the values accordingly.

Kevin,

I have implimented such a workflow, of using fields to reference other sheet/models information.  That works great with updating at plot time and using the renumber function, i ended up writing a small mvba that would update the tag valuses from the fields then utilized the titleblock integration to update the attributes.  I did make it both ways so if the user makes the change in the attribute, when the file is opened the field is updated.

Have you noticed in MicroStation Project Explorer that the HARVESTING seems to take longer than what ProjectWise takes to check the file.  I have never actually verified this but SURELY the Harvesting is taking advantage of DFT.  

Ah. I see that when you say field you mean a reference $FIELD$ who's value is shown when the file is rendered/viewed/plotted.  Not what I thought of as a field. I am not sure what mechanisim in Microstation or AutoCAD would be used to make that entity/element show the correct value without customizations that would have to travel with the drawing if you gave the native file to a vendor, supplier or such.

The biggest problems we wanted solved (and we've gone over this with Bentley)

* we use sheet titles and page references in notes on sheets other than the sheet with that title (i.e. "See detail # on sheet TITLE, page #)

* we frequently insert new sheets causing the need to renumber sheets frequently.

The first issue really doesn't work with tags because tags replace entire text node and trying to use a tag with text around it just doesn't work. Fields solves this problem by only replacing the field value

Ideally to use fields to reference a sheet/page number of another sheet, one could bring up Project Explorer, select the sheet the field would reference and select the sheet title/page number and insert a field into a text note.

Sheet numbering should be done at rendition (i.e. print but renditions are becoming more than paper these days) time with on the fly numbers applied as generated.

To be honest, i'm not sure ProjectWise is the appropriate place to store all these values. ProjectWise should be aware of them though.